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Vladstudioraw/iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — Lawyers for a Chicago police officer accused of murdering a Chicago teen in a shooting captured on dashcam video that ignited protests in the city and around the country are arguing their client will not be able to get a fair trial in Chicago. Chicago cop Jason Van […]

blackdovfx/iStock/Thinkstock(MONTESANTO, Wash.) — A bright burst of light illuminated the horizon over western Washington state Wednesday night, followed by a loud boom that shook the ground, according to several reports, leaving both residents and officials puzzled. Local officials in Grays Harbor County received hundreds of calls about the incident, the […]

John McCall/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Image(PARKLAND, Fla.) — “I love you, it’s going to be fine,” a panic-stricken mother said over the phone to her child hiding in a classroom during the Parkland, Florida school massacre. “Can you play dead? I need you to play dead.” Officials on Thursday released […]

iStock/Thinkstock(FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.) — A car burst into flames in New Jersey Thursday morning, killing the driver who apparently drove onto live wires, police said. Around 9 a.m. Thursday officers responding to a car fire in Franklin Lakes found a “vehicle fully engulfed in fire and a live power line […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(BALTIMORE) — A Baltimore FBI agent apparently stabbed his estranged wife to death before committing suicide at her Maryland home, according to police. A woman reported to 911 at about 8 a.m. Wednesday that Donna Fisher had asked her to call “because she was being threatened by her […]

ABCNews.com(BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif.) — The parents of the young girl who was seen in harrowing video earlier this week dangling from a ski lift described the “absolute fear” they felt as they watched their daughter suspend from the lift. In video captured by a fellow skier, Sara, 5, can […]

ABCNews.com(JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala.) — A person of interest has been taken into custody after a 17-year-old girl was shot dead at an Alabama high school Wednesday, police said. Charges are pending a review of the case by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s office, the Birmingham Police Department said Thursday. A […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — As Wednesday’s nor’easter leaves slippery black ice in its wake, here’s why black ice is so dangerous. Black ice occurs when liquid freezes on a black roadway. The ice is completely clear, so it’s difficult for motorists and pedestrians to distinguish the difference between a wet roadway […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Almost 1 million people are without power across the Northeast this morning as the region digs out from its second nor’easter in seven days. But before the snow turns to slush a third nor’easter is approaching this weekend. The latest The snow from the latest nor’easter moved […]